#religoin

[divinum-pacis]

Medina, Saudi Arabia: Muslim pilgrims visits al-Baqi cemetery next to the prophet Muhammad’s mosque.

Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock

[wisdomfish]

Christianity is not a segregated religion. It offered itself without restriction to all individuals, classes, and nations; it was not limited to one people, like Judaism, nor to the freemen of one state, like the official cults of Greece and Rome.

Will Durant

[wisdomfish]

God does not draw moral lessons from the animals, as many religious authors over the years have done. There is no “be like the deer, who...” The animals are God’s works of art, to be loved and enjoyed for their own sakes, and for what they show us about the wisdom, joy, power, and beauty of the Artist himself.

Timothy Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, [Riverhead Books, New York, (2013)], p. 285

[wisdomfish]

Only Two Religions

"Scripture often attests to an extreme opposition or 'antithesis' within humanity, a conflictual relationship between those who have 'truth faith' in this God, and those who have 'fake faith'. This false faith amounts to believing 'lies' about this God. Consequently, and again mentioned previously, despite the plethora of worldviews and religions that exists in the world, in reality there are only two: those rooted and built up in Christ, and those founded on 'hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ' (Col 2:6-10)."

~ Daniel Strange, Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock

[wisdomfish]

The only way that Mormons are able to come up with a different understanding is to appeal to writings outside the Bible and contradictory to it.

~ John R. Farkas, David A. Reed, Mormons Answered Verse by Verse, p. 73

[wisdomfish]

Whatever else there was, there was never any such thing as the Evolution of the Idea of God.

G.K. Chesterton

[gbpak]

The Shaman usually enjoys great powers and prestige in the community and is often a person of superior intellect and ability. He as a priest, medicine-man, wizard or magician, acts to cure diseases, to reveal the future, to influence the weather, to decide cases and to take revenge from the enemy. >>Read more

Locally know as Dayal / Bitan - An insight to this shamanism tradition in Gilgit-Baltistan.

[universalmorals-blog]

Questioning Your Religion

Religion is a touchy subject for most no doubt, but I think its highly important to question your religion. Read your scripture, and if you find something that feels morally wrong don’t try and make it seem right. But don’t be so quick to judge some stories that seems wildly unreal. Accept that they are man made stories,but that they might hold a valuable rhetoric.